Just wait till this happens to ur team. Next time we’ll be up up by 21 and shove another td down your throat. Then you’ll be complaining that we ran the score up. Can’t wait to play Tampa bay Fucs again!

Do me a favor and google “miracle at the meadowlands” then come teach us some more about football and statistical probabilities. The Giants kneel down had nothing to do with mercy and everything to do with sealing victory.

Also, just because it’s a kneel down, doesn’t mean the o-line needs to take the play off. I call it poor coaching to not have your o-line ready to at least fire off the line a bit to protect their qb. It’s not as if the Bucs are the first NFL team to try to disrupt the snap on a kneel down play. Gentleman’s agreement my ass. In a multi-score game, sure. But if there’s a chance for a W, you take it.

I’ve spent my entire life playing/coaching/watching football and I couldn’t think of anything more bizarrely wrong and illogical than to say ‘Playing hard till the last whistle blows (in a game that’s still in the balance) isn’t proper football etiquette’.

Sometimes these things need to be aired out and in this case it’s been worthwhile, not because it matters what happened in that one game, but because it transforms thinking going forward.

Just another manufactured controversy by a whiny New York team with a sense of entitlement.

A kneel-down is a FOOTBALL PLAY. It is within regulation. The game is not over until that clock reads ALL zeros. The defense has every right to charge for the ball.

But I do not risk a chance that my center gets pushed back into my QB and potentially injures him, under any circumstances. So no, I do not kneel in that situation, and anyone who would (in fact, in my view all the “yeah, play to the final whistle and try to get to the QB” folks) simply have no grasp of either football or statistical probabilities.

This cuts both ways. I think if Schiano wants to do this, that’s fine. But then he shouldn’t be surprised if a powerhouse team decides to just run up the score on him rather than taking a knee.

I noticed you left out another scenario, which coincidentally is the one from the Giants-Bucs game: up less than 8, not in the red zone, a few seconds left. Do you:

A. Run the ball, hoping a fumble is not forced.
B. Pass, hoping there isn’t a pick-six.
C. Kneeldown with almost no chance of a fumble, while having your lineman block AS NORMAL.

Hmm, choices…

What do hockey rules have to do with football rules?

I say if you are going to hit hard and try to get at my QB on a kneel-down, I’m just never going to kneel regardless of the situation.

Up 28 in the middle of the 4th quarter? My foot’s staying on the gas, let’s run up the score. 2 min warning at midfield up by two scores? Pour it on, let’s embarrass them. 1st and goal at the 2, 55 seconds left, up by a TD? I’m sure not going to kneel and give you a shot at the QB, let’s see if we can pile on some more points and rub in the victory just a little more.

This cuts both ways. I think if Schiano wants to do this, that’s fine. But then he shouldn’t be surprised if a powerhouse team decides to just run up the score on him rather than taking a knee.

For some reason, Goodell is much later with his fines for Giants players than he is for players for other teams. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that he’s a Giants fan?
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What are you even talking about?

People! It’s over! Can we move on?

Talk about the Music City Miracle, talk about Vinatieri’s FG in a driving snowstorm. But please stop talking about this!!!

I swear, Goodell and the league are becoming more obnoxious and arrogant with every passing day